Publications
Books published by the Smart in conjunction with special exhibitions. Most titles are available for purchase online through the University of Chicago Press.
Free and open to the public
The Silvia Bolognesi Quartet performs in the Smart Museum’s courtyard as part of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, a weekend of free performances at cultural venues across the neighborhood.
FREE, open to all.
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Silvia Bolognesi is a double bass player, composer, and arranger. She leads several bands: Open Combo, Almond Tree, Xilo Ensemble, Ju-Ju Sounds, Fonterossa Open Orchestra, Beast Friends, and Young Shouts. She is also part of the international string trio Hear in Now, with Tomeka Reid on cello and Mazz Swift on violin and vocals; the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s 50th Anniversary special project; and the Roscoe Mitchell Quintet. In 2010, Bolognesi founded her own label, Fonterossa Records. She is now also artistic director of the Fonterossa Day minifestival, hosted by Pisa Jazz, and the curator and conductor of the Fonterossa Open Orchestra, a creative orchestra based in Pisa since 2017. As a student, she studied double bass at the R. Franci Institute of Siena with Maestros Andrea Granai and Alberto Bocini, and jazz at the Siena Jazz Academy with Paolino dalla Porta, Furio di Castri, and Ferruccio Spinetti. The most significant encounters in her musical training were those with William Parker, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lawrence “Butch” Morris, Roscoe Mitchell, and Antony Braxton. She now teaches double bass and combo at the Siena Jazz Academy and is a jazz double bass teacher at Conservatorio Statale di Palermo. She has been part of the “European exchange-Erasmus +” program for the Conservatory of Maastricht (Holland), Tbilisi (Georgia), Riga (Latvia), and Birmingham (UK) since 2016, and has run workshops on improvisation and "conduction" since 2008.
The instrumentation of Young Shouts, as well as frequent moments of collective improvisation, exhibit the defining characteristics of the group as a classic modern jazz quartet. The quartet’s first recording, aLive Shouts, contains a Suite for Bessie Jones, which was inspired by the lyrics of songs made famous by the singer. The quartet’s second record, A Frame in the Crowd, is comprised completely of original compositions written and recorded during the pandemic and dedicated to a “missing” audience.
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Books published by the Smart in conjunction with special exhibitions. Most titles are available for purchase online through the University of Chicago Press.
photography, Africa, and the long 1960s
Digital | 2023
Leslie M. Wilson with contributions from Adom Getachew, Kathryn Takabvirwa, Natacha Nsabimana, Emily Lynn Osborn, Serin Lee, Daisy Coates, and Mariah A-K Bender.
Art, Crisis, and Global Futures
$20 | 2022
Edited by Orianna Cacchione, Nandita Jaishankar, and Arushi Vats with contributions by Patrick Jagoda and Ashlyn Sparrow, Trina Nileena Banerjee and Amitesh Grover, Suraj Yengde, Jeet Thayil, Leticia Bernaus, Siyanda Mohutsiwa, Uzodinma Iweala, Ho Tzu Nyen, and Meena Kandasamy.
Beyond the Horizon
$35 | 2022
Abigail Winograd with Christian Crouch, Dieter Roelstraete, and Kathleen Ash Milby
Silver Moon or Golden Star, Which Will You Buy of Me?
$38 | 2019
Orianna Cacchione with G. Douglas Barrett and Seth Kim-Cohen
Material Art from China
$45 | 2019
Wu Hung and Orianna Cacchione with Christine Mehring and Trevor Smith
Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960–1980
$35 | 2018
Rebecca Zorach and Marissa H. Baker
A calendar
$30 | 2017
Robert Bird, Christina Kiaer, Zachary Cahill, and Diane Miliotes
Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman
$40 | 2016
Laura Letinsky and Jessica Moss
Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago
$45 | 2015
John Corbett, Jim Dempsey, Jessica Moss, and Richard A. Born
Viktor Koretsky's art
$24.95 | 2011
Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Tumelo Mosaka, and Stephanie Smith
The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850–1940
$20 | 2008
Elizabeth Helsinger
Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan
$28 | 2006
Joel Snyder, Josh Ellenbogen
The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500–1800
$24 | 2005
Rebecca Zorach, Elizabeth Rodini
Acquisitions 1990–2004
$30 | 2004
Kimerly Rorschach, Richard A. Born, Kris Ercums, Sophie Hackett, Anne Leonard, Diane Miliotes, Stephanie Smith, Jacqueline Terrassa
New Photography and Video from China
$40 | 2004
Wu Hung, Christopher Phillips
The Chicago Project
$25 | 2003
Dawoud Bey with Dan Collison, Elizabeth Meister, Stephanie Smith, and Jacqueline Terrassa
Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500–1850
$22 | 2002
Elizabeth Rodini and Elissa B. Weaver
Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
$22 | 2001
Linda Seidel
$22 | 2000
Ingrid D. Rowland, Craig Hanson, Noriko Matsubara, Mario Periera, and Allie Terry
At the Smart Museum of Art
$40 | 1998
Gloria Ferrari, Christina M. Nielsen, and Kelly Olson
The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall
$40 | 1997
Stephanie D'Alessandro
Fantasies about the Body in Weimar Art, Science, and Medicine
$8 | 1998
Stephanie D'Alessaandro and Sander L. Gilman
Aspects of Modern British Art, 1915–1965
$30 | 1997
Richard A. Born, Keith Hartley
The Celtic Revival 1840–1940
$27.50 | 1992
Micheal Camille, Neil Harris, Anthony Jones, Frank Kinahan, Linda Seidel and Cheryl Washer
A Catalogue Raisonné
Out of stock | 1987
Dennis Adrian and Richard A. Born
Artists' Responses to War from Antiquity through the Vietnam Era
$3 | 1985
Bedorah Bathon, Adrienne Kochman, Amy Merritt Rule, Laura Satersmoen, and Stefanie Siegel
Drawings from the 16th Century to the Present
$3 | 1982
Edward Maser and Richard A. Born
A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg
$3 | 1979
Harold Rosenberg, Saul Bellow, and Edward A. Maser
A Ming Dynasty Painter Represents the Past
$3 | 1976
Mary S. Lawton and Harrie A. Venderstappen
American Photographs 1860–1876
Out of stock | 1976
Joel Snyder and Doug Munson